"Pays highest line only"?

[frenchmarky]

I've seen a few Bally EMs that had a marquee saying something like "Pays highest line only", i.e. if two lit lines have combos it will only pay the highest one.  Were these rare?  Seems like a gyp to me, to have a line lit and a winner but you don't get paid for it.  Wondering if these games were made by Bally as specific models with much different wiring than multiple-line-paying 3 or 5 line machines, or if it just took some simple mods.

[AnotherTech]

I'm not sure about the games you are talking about, but most reel machines will have something like "Only Highest Winner Paid" or "Only Highest Winner Paid Per Payline" on them somewhere.

The way it was explained to me was that , say some customer was playing a 5 reel game and got 5 "X"s.  They would get payed for whatever the machine payed for 5 "X"s, but then you get a customer who complains that they should have ALSO been payed for 4 "X"s and 3"X"s as well, because they are a winning combination on the machine as well.  Putting "Only Highest Winner Paid" on there covered that scenario.  You only get paid for the highest winning combination, not each one (3+4+5).

[frenchmarky]

Ohhh ok that makes sense, like two cherries is just two cherries and not a pay for 1 + a pay for 2.  I was thinking it meant that a higher line might be excluding another lower-paying line, which would really tick a player off.  Thanks for the clarification!
Mark